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DEMOCRATIC TICKET
For United Stales Senator
\V. E. I'urcell
Representative in Congress—1st District
Fred Bartholomew
For Governor
Frank oscar llellstrom
For I.ieutenant Governor
James E. Ilall
For Secretary of State
W. E. Byerly
For State Auditor
Frank Shanley
For State Treasurer
Marthinus F. llegge
For Attorney General
Scott Cameron
For Commissioner of Insurance
Charles S. Whittlesey
For Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor
E. A. Lillibridge
For Commissioners of Railroads
B. I". Brocklioff
Sam A. Ilall
Win. Lougliiand
For Senator lith District
Frank Eherley
For Representatives 12 District
O. X. Mat lie
John J. Zentgraf
For Representative llTlh District
John It. Johnson
Andrew Krcinck
For Auditor
W. B. Aspinwall
For Treasurer
I.. S. liraun
For Sheriff
Fiank Budack
For Clerk or Court
August Bergman
For Stales Attorney
C. J. KachelholTer
For Register of Deeds
o. E. Olson
For County Judge
George Van Arnam
For Coroner
C. H. .McDonell
For Justices or the Peace
F. P. Nelson
J. N. Jurgensen
Iver A meson
John Kuchera
For Constables
Chas. W. crawrord
Waller I'elliam
!'. A. lioetlleman
Earl A. lilarktnun
For County Commissioner Snd Dist.
Andrew J. Hukken
For County Commissioner 3rd Dist.
W. J. Koppelman
For County Commissioner 4th Dist.
August lloel's
Why
Not
Spend Your Vacation In
Yellowstone
Park
THIS
YEAR
SEASON 1914
June 15 to September 15
No where else in all (be world Is there
a place so rich In natural phenomena.
Pullman Standard Sleeping Cars dally di
rect to
Gardiner Gateway
This is the natural and logical route to
and through Yellowstone Park. You
see it all—the painted terraces and bison
at "Mammoth the paint pots and gey
sers, in regular order Yellowstone
Lake, a mile and a half above the sea
•he Grand Canyon, the climax of the
tour. Through regular Train Service
daily, with Pullmans direct to the Park
boundary and to North Pae'0c Coast
Points.
Send for Illustrated literature
A. M. Cleland, G. P. A., SI. Paul, Minn,
or call and see
C.N.MOSES, Agent
Wahpetoa, N. D.
•aia-Paelle International Exposition
Saa Fraaelseo, IMS
Panama-CallforaJa Exposition
Saa Diego, IMS
PRISONERS OF THE CITY
There's a boy on the lower east
side of New York who is going to
make a name for himself if he
keeps on in the course he has
marked out with the same keen
observation, good sense and logic
that prompted him to it. Isidore
Oreenberg, born and bred in the
big city, lias been a New York
newsboy for 13 years. Now he is
going to enter Cornell and study
scientific argiculture. "Izzy." as
his fellow newsboys call him^ is
18 years old and has been selling
papers, observing people and con
ditions and turning things over
in his mind ever since he was five
years old: Agriculture is abou„t the
last thing the average city boy
would think of as a life occupa
tion. but "Izzy" has good grounds
for his choice.
"But why scientific agricul
ture?" a newspaper asked him.
"Why not the law or medicine?"
"The woods is full of them,"
was Izzy's wise answer, "and then
you've got to remember that sci
entific agriculture is the coming
thing. I've stood on that corner
down there many along afternoon
looking and listening and think
ing it all out. I've watched the fa
ces of thousands of men and wo
men who passed ine in the crowds
and it often struck me that a lot
of them were playing a losing
game. They were prisoners of
the city, serving a life sentence.
People here have forgotten that
all the wealth in the world comes
out of the ground. They've left
the open places or the eartn and
have crowded into the markets of
the cities, and tliey are stepping
on each other and narrowing
themselves mentally and physic
ally, while they grub for pay dirt.
Some day they are going back
home—back to the forests and the
farms, and when the back tu na
ture movement starts the man
who has specialized in sciontilie
agriculture is going tu have bis
day."
Perhaps the reporter put some
of the above words into Izzy's
mouth, but, the thoughts express
ed were no doubt his own and they
reveal the newsboy as a philos
opher as well as a keen observer.
Izzy certainly shows good sense
in refusing In let himself conljmi"
to be a "prisoner in the city, serv
ing a life sentence."
Mod's great outdoors calls loud
ly to many Izzies who are learn
ing by pitiful experience the sliain
and futility of the endless battle
for existence in the crowded hives
of humanity. Those of the
keenest perception, staunches!
courage and most unbreakable de
termination will, like Isidore
tireenberg. heed the call and the
country will welcome them. Not
all, of course, will succeed, as
success is measured by the world,
but assuredly the opportunities
for success in agriculture for
those who earnestly and patient
ly strive are not less than the op
portunities the cily holds open
for similar effort, and there can
be no comparison in the heallli
fulness, freedom and good influ
ence of the country and the city.
If every country boy could be
made to realize the golden op
portunity of his life lies right be
fore him and not just over the
horjzon, there would be fewer
"prisoners of the city serving a
life sentence" and eating their
hearts out for the real life worth
living, put behind tliein when
they left the old farm to seek elu
sive fortune in the busy marts of
trade.
CALAMITY'S DAY OVER
Every dog lias its day. The ca
lamity howler has had his, but his
time is up. There can no longer be
any question that prosperity is at
hand in the United States, though
other less favored countries may
continue for a time to feel the
effects of the business stagnation
that has been world wide.
When we read in the personal
organ of so pessimistic and per
sistent a prophet of woe as Sena
tor Oliver of Pennsylvania that
"Pittsburgh is returning to its old
time prosperity," we can no long
er doubt that the pleasant condi
tions heralded by the record
breaking crops are before us.
Those crops, it is estimated by
government experts, will reach in
value $10,000,000,000, a sum so
vast that we cannot grasp it, but
greater than the value of all the
real estate in New York and Chi
cago combined, and which would
pay ofT all our national debt ten
times over. Calamity cannot sur
vive such a deluge of plenty.
According to Senator Oliver's
paper "all branches of trade are
feeling the stimulus of the return
of normal conditions." and Sena
tor Oliver's paper would be the
last one to say so if the facts were
not so conspicuous. But it isn't
necessary to take any paper's
word for the return of prosperity.
There are plenty of concrete facts
to prove it.
The Pennsylvania railroad has
just awarded contracts for 100,
000 tons of steel rails and the en
tire steel industry of the country
is booming. As Henry Ford, the
great automobile builder says,
"there is absolutely nothing
wrong with business." and he em
phasizes his faith in the truth of
what he says by starting to dou
ble the capacity of his immense
plant.
The calamity howler may as
well succumb to the inevitable
with as good grace as he can mus
ter. The country is not going
to the demnition bowwows. There
is not going to be a return to the
soup-house days of Mr. Roose
velt's administration. Having
quickly emerged from a passing
period of world-wide business de
pression, the United States is now
entering upon an era of unpre
cedented prosperity, and no
amount of baying at the moon by
disappointed pessimists will
change the facts.
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THE WAHPETON TIMIt
CAMPAIGN OF DEFAMATION
Whether it be called a conspir
acy or not, there has been a cam
paign of defamation of the busi
ness conditions of the country,
conducted solely in the hope of
defeating Democratic candidates
for Congress and securing a Re
publican House this fall. It is a
disreputable campaign and a
dangerous one.
Any merchant's credit is liable
to be impaired by the circulation
of rumors that lie is embarassed.
The effort to convince the court-,
try that the state of business is
very bad is directly calculated to
make it bad, and that is its pur
pose.
The protectionist propanganda
would be mighty glad to see a
panic. The last one we had was
when they were in full possession
of the government, but their ef
frontery is equal to charging any
dullness of business now on the
Democratic party, while denying
they were responsible for the
panic-of 1907.
The effort of men in Congress
and of the distinctively Protec
tionist organs to collect and re
peat and enlarge upon every indi
cation of dullness in trade, and to
predict worse conditions in the
near future, is a wicked and de
liberate effort to brine about a
bad state of business in the hope
of making some political gain out
of it. The banker in Ft. Wayne
who refused to answer the inquir
ies of the Protective Tariff League
and told the League what he
thought of its efforts was a pa
triotic man trying to make busi
ness better, while the League is
openly trying to make it worse in
Hi" hope of changing some votes
in November.
It might as well save its ef
forts. A Republican House could
not change the tariff, even if they
succeeded in making it Republi
can.—Philadelphia Record.
It is enough to make a monkey
laugh to hear Theodore Roose
velt, talk against the present tar
iff bill. Theodore's whole public
record on the tariff question is
that of an artful dodger. In his
college days he was a free trader
and a member of the Cobden club.
In his "Life of Benton" he said
that, Senator Benton was a free
trader but, yielded his principles
in order to secure tariff favors for
Missouri. He did not condemn
Heiiton he excused him. That
complacent view of principle vs.
expediency explains the ease with
which Mr. Roosevelt adjusts his
own conscience to fit. the exigen
cies ol' the occasion. During his
entire administration as president
he dodged the tariff. Why should
any intelligent person place any
weight on what he now says about
the tariff, now that he is out of
office and hungry for more.
Kindcl of Colorado having left
the Democracy, the party of Jeff
erson. Jackson. Bryan and Wilson
no doubt, will give up the ghost.
By the way. who is Kindel of Colo
rado?
"Whv is it," asks an inquisitive
contemporary, "that a pretty girl
is seldom clever?" Well, melilie
it's because she doesn't need to be.
Some people who never had any
advantages of their own get. even
by taking advantage of others.
No man big enough for a U. S.
Senator is small enough to haggle
over his mileage.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS
Prof. E. H. and Mrs. Jones left
for New York City Tuesday night.
The Orand Forks Fair this vear
will be held July 28-31.
The State Fair this year is the
best ever. It will pay you to visit
it.
Ringling Bros, will be in Fargo
next Wednesday, and is as good as
ever.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kinney have
returned from a week's visit in
Wisconsin.
Miss Frances Lauder improves
very slowly and is still in St.
Francis' hospital.
Donald Robertson and family
ar» visiting his father. Dr. Rob
ertson at Grand Forks.
Carl Jacobson returned last
Saturday from Lidgerwood, where
he has been enjoying a vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Aubenshein
of Judas Gap, Mont., are visiting
with friends-and relatives in this
city.
D. J. Flynn and wife and daugh
ter of Sioux City. Iowa, are guests
at the Wm. Keating home in Cen
ter township.
Phil Boll, the first baseman for
the local baseball team, besides
playing ball at Morris Sunday also
visited with friends.
Rev. Baker's subject at the
Congregational church next Sun
day morning will be: "Why God
can't save men. and The Law of
Human Success."
FOR SALE CHEAP—One Mc
Cormick binder—7 foot cut—in
good condition and ready for use.
A bargain for someone.—Forbes
& Lounsbury. 7-23 2t
C. F. Bailey, one of Barney's
old soldiers and most highly, re
spected citizens, stopped off in
Wahpeton yesterday, while en
route to the State Fair at Fargo.
J. H. McCoy leaves tonight for
Milwaukee, where he goes as a
delegate to the big L. O. O. M.
convention. C. J. Miller will ac
company him.
The official count of the recent
primary elections in this state has
been completed and W. E. Pur
®e'l
Ti8
the Democratic nominee
for U. S. Senator. If he could
beat Jones without a day's cam
paigning what may he not be able
to do to Gronna when he gets on
the stump?
More than 500 head of cattle
are on exhibition at the Fair, and
many of the finest cattle of the
northwest are to be seen there.
The South St. Paul stockyards are
represented at the exhibition, all
of their animals being of two
types, the profitable and the un
profitable. They hope in this way
to teach stock raisers to raise the
kinds that pay the best.
The Women's departments are
much more fully represented than
ever before, and there are many
departures from former rules and
entries. The big prizes offered in
these departments this year have
resulted in much competition and
a fine display in culinary art as
well as in other women's depart
ments.
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HOMINY CORN CLUB
A Plan for Improving Whit* Corn ffof
Human Food.
(National Crop Improvement Service.]
At every meeting of farmers you
wiil find Quite a large proportion who
prefer growing white rather than yel
low corn but as a rule, the Quality
of the white com has been steadily
gouis down until ihe white corn which
is iu received cn the market is fre
quently badly damaged and must be
thiown into teed graces, which sell
fur hve cents under the price of white
coin used for human consumption in
cum meal, hominy and grits. White
cirn which weighs 55 or 56 pounds
lei bushel is worth from one to three
cents more than yellow corn of the
same quality, af a general rule.
No mail can iiuprc\ both his yel
low corn and his white corn if they
are planted within reach of eacii
other's po.len. Therefore, it is sug
gested that the Menus of white corn
form a hominy club and grow white
c&ru exclusively, breeding it up to
its highest eti.ciency. The agronomy
ciepartment at your state college will
unuoubtedly help you establish a fine
tyoe of white com. The variety does
not matter so much as the growing
of the oue kind by all of the neighbors
so as to obtain sufficient quantities to
sell this corn by sample rather than
sacrificing it by mixing it with inferior
corn.
The county agent can do a great
deal of good by establishing a seed
plot for white com where it will be
unaffected by neighboring yellow com.
The idea of the club will be to get
as large a membership as possible to
grow the besc white corn, if they are
not already committed to improving
their yellow corn. There is danger
of overlooking the quality of white
corn.
IS THE COUNTY AGENT NEEDED?
Is the county agent needed? Many
argue that other forms of extension
work—the farm press, the institute,
the bulletin—meet the situation satis
factorily. The warmest friends of the
farmers' institute recognize its serious
deficiency in a total lack of follow-up
work. There is such a great likeli
hood that those attending the institute
will assent to the preachments of the
speaker and then go back home and
farm the same old way. Instead of
one institute a year, as at present,
with an agent there can be twelve
instead of only two or three in the
county, there can be one in each
township. Furthermore, the agent can
help the farmers apply the lesson ol
the institute.
The bulletin is sent out from the
experiment station or the department
cl agriculture when it Is published.
The agent will see that It is sent out
when it is needed. The scientific dis
cussions' in the bulletin can frequently
be summarized In a few terse para
graphs and the agent, through the
press and through the institute, will
carry the message from the scientist
to the farmer.
The agent is needed, not to displace
other work, but as an efficiency man
to second all legitimate forms of ex
tension work and to bring to the con
crete problem of the farm all the
teachings of agricultural science, tem
pering their application by the add
test of local farm experience.—Farm
.Management Monthly.
MADE SILO 8URVEY OF COUNTY.
To meet the demand for accurate la
formation about the different types
of silos, the farm improvement bureau
of Montgomery county, Kan., recently
'made a complete survey of all the
silos In that county. They have on
file a list giving the name of every
sile owner and the kind of sile he has
tn use, so that other farmers or out
siders desiring facts about the suc
cess or failure of any type can visit
the (krms and find out for themselves.
It is hoped that by this method the
farmers will be helped to find which
type of construction is best
to their conditions, and they will be
saved from the lairge amount of mis
information which Is commonly spread
about. E. J. Macy is the county agri
culturalist.—Orange Judd Farmer.
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THE STATE FAIR
The State Fair which is being
held at Fargo this week is having
a record breaking attendance, ov
er 5,000 visitors being reported in
atendance the first day—Monday.
On Tuesday the attendance was
much greater. Monday was Imple
ment Dealers' Day and they were
there from several states. The
Canadian government also has its
representatives there, and Fargo
this week is a mecca for famous
Fair people from many states.
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No. 1 soft, ola-growth yellow fir
shiplap, cut from the timber giants of Washington:
This price means $19.00 shiplap, at most any Station
in North Dakota, a little more or a little less in adjoin
ing states, the price depending on the freight rate to
your station. All other lumber and millwork at the
same low prices for instance, a five-cross panel first
quality clear fir door for $1.60 laid down at your station
Get Our Figures Before You Buy
Let us give you a freight-paid, delivered price on
that house, barn or granary bill. Estimates are free
and put you under no obligation. We are sure to save
you money against all competition. Try us.
WE SIMPLY MUST PLEASE YOU
You inspect before you accept our material. We
guarantee fresh, clean stock. We guarantee prompt
shipments. We guarantee highest grades and full count
Send for Bargain Hillwork Catalogue. It's Free.
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S28 Perkins Bldg., Tacoma, Washington
Chas. E. Fee, traveling for
Deere & Webber with headquart
ers in this city, was recently mar
ried to Miss Minerva Gish of Min
neapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Fee will
make their home in this city.
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rates, as have the private companies in Amer
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That is the reason Europe has only one
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United States there is one telephone for every
ten persons.
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Country Operated by
No. of Tele
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Sweden Prtv. and Gov. 75,000 3.9 42.0
Germany Government 1,302,672 1.9 20.0
Great Britain ... Government 738,738 1.6 17.0
France Government 293,195 0.7 7.7
Austria Government 161,230 0.5 6.S
Hungary Government 75,738 0.4 4.4
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Wm. M. and Mrs. Keating re
turned home yesterday from a
visit at the old home in Wisconsin
where he says they had a fine time.
He says the crops there are good,
but not nearly as good as those in
this state.